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Windy City Double Feature Picture Show

Dec 20, 2021

In our FIRST SEASON FINALE, Chicago film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt look back at the cheerfully odd double feature of SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS and SANTA'S MAGIC KINGDOM that opened at the Loop Theater on December 18, 1964.

We'll be recreating this classic double feature at Music Box Theater on...


Nov 30, 2021

Chicago film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt are joined by film noir preservationist Alan K. Rode as they look back at this quintessential crime double feature of WHITE HEAT (1949) and TOO LATE FOR TEARS (1949) that opened at the McVickers Theater on October 28, 1949.

Mike and Adam will be presenting this...


Oct 28, 2021

This week, Chicago film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt are joined by A.V. Club senior writer Katie Rife as they look back at a nasty, mean-spirited infamous exploitation double feature of, I Spit on Your Grave and The Children that opened at the Luna Theatre on July 11, 1980.

 


Oct 15, 2021

Chicago film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt are joined by Chicago International Film Festival After Dark programmer Raul Benitez as the trio look back on at the super spooky, genre bending double feature of THE MUMMY and CURSE OF THE UNDEAD that opened at the Howard Theatre on September 4, 1959.

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Sep 27, 2021

Chicago film historians Adam Carston and Mike Vanderbilt look back at the  Herschel Gordon Lewis directed the gory and rough, "something weird" double feature of BLOOD FEAST and SCUM OF THE EARTH that opened at the Starlite Drive-In—located in suburban Oak Lawn—on August 9, 1963 which we recreated at Chicago's Music...